Since your in sales stop getting all the junk... It might be an easy account to get but i have seen way to many drivers get hurt del. that freight.... Also pass the word around to all the other salespeople to stop making promises to the customer that can't be held up by the driver........
"We were told you hand a forklift"
"Where is your help"
"They said this was coming on a small truck"
"You mean you don't have chains or straps to drag it back they said you would have them"
"They told us you would bring it in and set it up"

Yes i have heard all of these..... I also have talked to the shipper on the other end.. When the customer complained i told them to call the shipper.... Every once in a while they handed me the phone so i could talk to the shipper.... They usually said that the sales person for R&L told them it could be done!!!!!! Thank goodness for linehaul!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No it comes out of my pocket. I do not get anything extra. I appreciate what my drivers do for me everyday. I also make sure that they know I am out there with them. If I see any driver I make a point to stop and see how their day is going. I know tht all sales people are not the same but I will do whatever I can for my guys.

Rd, maybe some sales people do this. I do not. I do not overpromise and I do not sell ugly freight either. Like I said before I work with my drivers and you could probably ask any of them and they will tell you this. It is too bad that some reps will put anything on the truck just to have business. There is enough out there where we can secure the nice freight without jeopardizing a driver.

Come on ! your taking a pay CUT for more freight? YEA right you might have a good relationship with the drivers but the rest is just

Who are you trying to kid with this statement? You're just spying on them, aren't you?

Forgive my skepticism here but you being a salesman, and a female, almost makes it a lock cinch that you've never drove a truck before.

Now having said that, what the hell could you possibly know about what constitutes "ugly freight"? You don't even know what a 2000 lb carlift looks like, do you?

Here's a couple more for you.

1) How much ground clearance is necessary to get a pallet jack under something to move it?

2) What is the outside dimension of our standard-issue pallet jack forks?

3) What is the inside dimension of our standard-issue pallet jack forks?

4)How long are our standard-issue pallet jack forks?

5) How big are our liftgates?

Answers...

1) 3 inches. That's for the stupider salesmen who insist on finding us freight shipped on those low-profile skids.

2) 27 inches. That's for you idiots who insist on finding us those narrow skids.

3) 13 inches. That's for the dumbasses who keep getting us freight on those skids with 4 stringers in them instead of 3. Hello?!? We can't do a damn thing with those beyond breaking it down.

4) 4 feet. That's for you rejects who keep finding us that long stuff, you know, the skids that weigh about 1000 lbs and are 12 feet long.

Now think about the physics of that, lady. With 4 feet of pallet jack you'll only lift one end of something that size and you still won't be able to move it.


5) 5 feet by 7'6". That's for you morons who insist on finding us those 1000 lb crates that measure about 8 foot square, going to Joe Residence in Jerkwater, anystate. And, of course, QWE Logistics would be the broker, so it would say "do not hold freight for any reason".

Pardon my seemingly condescending tone here, but I do regard salesmen with some degree of contempt. The reason for this is that you people, due to your responsibility to the company, are primarily to blame for making my job harder than necessary. Rubberduck's post has some fine examples of that.

Now, I don't expect you to be a physics major. Hell, a lot our so-called drivers would look at you like you're from Mars if you asked them any of thse questions. But I do expect at least a modicum of common sense to be used by those who have the most capacity for affecting the quality of my workday.